About 1,770 private sector health professionals, contact tracers, barangay healthcare workers, and other frontliners have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccines in Quezon City (QC).
Members of the Quezon City Epidemiology and Surveillance Disease Unit (CESU), Barangay Health Emergency Response Teams (BHERTS), and select personnel of the QC Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) have been inoculated with CoronaVac and AstraZeneca vaccines donated by the national government.
“To get our frontliners vaccinated is an achievement since this will provide them protection especially in the performance of their duties. It is our responsibility to make sure that all of our healthcare workers including our support teams are safe from the virus,” Mayor Joy Belmonte announced.
The local government aims to vaccinate more than 6,000 frontliners including health care workers in public and private clinics, diagnostic laboratories, homes for the aged and rehabilitation centers.
The City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit Head Dr. Rolly Cruz was inoculated to boost the morale and performance of others.
“We are slowly gaining momentum in the vaccination of our team. As the head of CESU, I am more than glad and relieved because our team will be protected. We can avoid serious complications from the disease,” Dr. Cruz enthused.
QC Task Force Vax to Normal Co-Chair Joseph Juico shared that all employees and healthcare workers who are part of the master list of the three local government hospitals have also received their first dose of CoronaVac and AstraZeneca.
“The vaccines of our hospital workers were timely as they face yet another surge in the number of cases. This is why it is important to have our medical workers vaccinated because they are continuously exposed to the risk of infection,” Juico emphasized. – Allan Francisco
